Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 66 81
Rank change year-on-year -22 +15 -25
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,956 1,933 2,688
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.95% 3.94% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 4.38% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,405 966 1,927
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.65%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -5.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 24 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -23 1,713 £75,000 +3.45% 814
UK excluding London -44 1,055 £65,000 -7.14% 460
Work from Home -19 884 £65,000 -7.14% 376
London -14 760 £85,000 +3.03% 464
North of England -39 366 £69,655 -0.49% 144
South East +3 284 £65,000 -7.14% 148
North West -50 198 £75,000 +8.70% 75
South West -38 122 £57,500 -16.09% 42
Midlands -62 98 £66,250 +1.92% 57
North East +23 88 £65,000 +18.18% 28
Yorkshire -25 80 £60,000 -16.66% 41
West Midlands -47 71 £77,500 +10.71% 37
Wales -14 57 £70,000 +34.62% 14
Northern Ireland -22 56 £72,500 +45.00% 18
East of England -21 43 £60,100 -3.84% 14
Scotland -61 31 £60,000 -23.87% 27
East Midlands -59 26 £64,000 +6.67% 20
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 4

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 35 (1.79%) Confluence
2 25 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.82%) CMS
3 16 (0.82%) IIS
4 14 (0.72%) Apache
5 10 (0.51%) Camunda
6 9 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.41%) WordPress
8 7 (0.36%) JBoss
8 7 (0.36%) nginx
8 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.26%) Drupal
10 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.15%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (0.56%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.10%) Shopify
6 1 (0.051%) Eikon
6 1 (0.051%) RMDS
6 1 (0.051%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,010 (51.64%) AWS
2 847 (43.30%) Azure
3 329 (16.82%) GCP
4 263 (13.45%) Serverless
5 237 (12.12%) GitHub
6 183 (9.36%) SaaS
7 170 (8.69%) Azure DevOps
8 130 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
9 110 (5.62%) Amazon S3
10 109 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
11 99 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 98 (5.01%) GitHub Copilot
13 90 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
14 80 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
16 66 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
17 64 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
17 64 (3.27%) Azure AKS
18 52 (2.66%) PaaS
19 49 (2.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.27%) Broadband
2 24 (1.23%) Network Security
3 15 (0.77%) MQTT
4 13 (0.66%) DMARC
5 11 (0.56%) DNS
6 8 (0.41%) AMQP
6 8 (0.41%) Firewall
6 8 (0.41%) Internet
6 8 (0.41%) VPN
7 7 (0.36%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.31%) DHCP
8 6 (0.31%) RFID
8 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.26%) HTTP
10 4 (0.20%) LTE
11 3 (0.15%) Modbus
12 1 (0.051%) NAS
12 1 (0.051%) PSTN
12 1 (0.051%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 303 (15.49%) MongoDB
2 220 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
3 200 (10.22%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 159 (8.13%) Elasticsearch
6 125 (6.39%) MySQL
7 106 (5.42%) SQL Server
8 90 (4.60%) Relational Database
9 64 (3.27%) Redis
10 52 (2.66%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (1.58%) Big Data
13 21 (1.07%) RDBMS
14 17 (0.87%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.61%) Db2
15 12 (0.61%) DTS
15 12 (0.61%) Pinecone
16 11 (0.56%) Data Lake
17 10 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
18 8 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 244 (12.47%) Git
2 185 (9.46%) GitLab
3 158 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.07%) JIRA
5 57 (2.91%) JUnit
5 57 (2.91%) TeamCity
6 43 (2.20%) Cucumber
7 34 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 33 (1.69%) Mockito
9 31 (1.58%) Claude Code
10 25 (1.28%) Maven
11 22 (1.12%) CircleCI
11 22 (1.12%) Selenium
12 19 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 18 (0.92%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.66%) JMeter
14 13 (0.66%) Postman
14 13 (0.66%) Spock
15 12 (0.61%) REST Assured
15 12 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 469 (23.98%) Finance
2 354 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 199 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 164 (8.38%) Banking
5 118 (6.03%) Law
6 117 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 115 (5.88%) Retail
8 114 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
9 73 (3.73%) Legal
10 54 (2.76%) Financial Institution
11 43 (2.20%) Back Office
12 41 (2.10%) Marketing
13 30 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.43%) Legal Technology
15 24 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 21 (1.07%) Advertising
17 20 (1.02%) Games
18 19 (0.97%) Telecoms
19 18 (0.92%) Front Office
20 14 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 745 (38.09%) Developer
2 470 (24.03%) Senior
3 352 (18.00%) Software Engineer
4 298 (15.24%) Lead
5 263 (13.45%) Architect
6 206 (10.53%) .NET Developer
7 175 (8.95%) Senior Developer
8 150 (7.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 145 (7.41%) Java Developer
10 132 (6.75%) Java Engineer
11 114 (5.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 111 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
13 101 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
14 93 (4.75%) Principal Engineer
15 82 (4.19%) Software Developer
16 73 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.63%) Lead Developer
18 60 (3.07%) Lead Software Engineer
19 54 (2.76%) Technical Leader
20 53 (2.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (27.25%) .NET
2 424 (21.68%) React
3 417 (21.32%) Node.js
4 323 (16.51%) Spring
5 302 (15.44%) Spring Boot
6 288 (14.72%) RESTful
7 255 (13.04%) REST
8 243 (12.42%) Kafka
9 233 (11.91%) ASP.NET
10 214 (10.94%) .NET Core
11 209 (10.69%) AngularJS
12 207 (10.58%) Vue
13 192 (9.82%) ASP.NET Core
14 110 (5.62%) Blazor
15 107 (5.47%) ASP.NET Web API
16 98 (5.01%) .NET Framework
17 95 (4.86%) HTML
18 89 (4.55%) CSS
19 80 (4.09%) gRPC
20 75 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 581 (29.70%) Cloud Native
2 342 (17.48%) Distributed Systems
3 136 (6.95%) Product Ownership
4 100 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
5 86 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
6 60 (3.07%) Onboarding
7 56 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
8 47 (2.40%) Video\Live Streaming
9 45 (2.30%) Over-the-Top Content
10 39 (1.99%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.89%) AI Agents
12 31 (1.58%) Virtual Team
13 30 (1.53%) e-Learning
14 25 (1.28%) Algorithms
14 25 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
15 23 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
15 23 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
16 19 (0.97%) Mobile App
17 18 (0.92%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 124 (6.34%) Linux
2 47 (2.40%) Windows
3 21 (1.07%) Unix
4 18 (0.92%) CentOS
4 18 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.26%) AIX
7 4 (0.20%) Debian
7 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.10%) Android
8 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,028 (52.56%) CI/CD
2 935 (47.80%) Agile
3 695 (35.53%) DevOps
4 693 (35.43%) Software Engineering
5 558 (28.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 451 (23.06%) Mentoring
7 429 (21.93%) Containerisation
8 411 (21.01%) Event-Driven
9 406 (20.76%) AI
10 401 (20.50%) Test Automation
11 387 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 371 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 361 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
14 279 (14.26%) Scrum
15 258 (13.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 255 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
17 239 (12.22%) TDD
18 220 (11.25%) Clean Code
19 214 (10.94%) Coaching
20 208 (10.63%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 636 (32.52%) Java
2 546 (27.91%) C#
3 485 (24.80%) SQL
4 470 (24.03%) Python
5 443 (22.65%) JavaScript
6 362 (18.51%) TypeScript
7 120 (6.13%) Go
8 54 (2.76%) Scala
9 49 (2.51%) Ruby
10 46 (2.35%) C++
11 42 (2.15%) PHP
12 39 (1.99%) Bash
13 27 (1.38%) PowerShell
14 26 (1.33%) Bicep
15 25 (1.28%) Rust
16 22 (1.12%) C
17 16 (0.82%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.77%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.61%) Groovy
20 11 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 257 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 175 (8.95%) Degree
2 175 (8.95%) SC Cleared
3 81 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 64 (3.27%) AWS Certification
5 63 (3.22%) DV Cleared
6 40 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (1.12%) CISSP
8 18 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 18 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.46%) MBA
11 9 (0.46%) PhD
12 8 (0.41%) CISM
13 5 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.20%) GIAC
14 4 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (10.28%) QA
2 75 (3.83%) Accessibility
3 40 (2.04%) GDPR
4 39 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.64%) WCAG
6 22 (1.12%) SOC 2
7 21 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.97%) NIST
9 16 (0.82%) NCSC
10 15 (0.77%) GRC
11 10 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.36%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.26%) PSD2
15 5 (0.26%) SEPA
16 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 565 (28.89%) Docker
2 27 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.26%) NDS
5 4 (0.20%) Firmware
6 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.051%) KVM
Systems Management
1 591 (30.21%) Kubernetes
2 345 (17.64%) Terraform
3 110 (5.62%) Ansible
4 96 (4.91%) Grafana
5 59 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.28%) Argo
7 18 (0.92%) Puppet
8 17 (0.87%) Kibana
9 14 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.66%) Cilium
11 8 (0.41%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.31%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.20%) Packer
13 4 (0.20%) Podman
14 2 (0.10%) MIIS
14 2 (0.10%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.10%) Rancher
15 1 (0.051%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.051%) Istio
15 1 (0.051%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 311 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 84 (4.29%) Google
3 64 (3.27%) Oracle
4 45 (2.30%) Typelevel
5 38 (1.94%) OpenAI
6 31 (1.58%) Splunk
7 25 (1.28%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.18%) IBM
9 21 (1.07%) AppDynamics
10 20 (1.02%) Databricks
11 13 (0.66%) Adobe
11 13 (0.66%) Okta
11 13 (0.66%) OneLogin
11 13 (0.66%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.61%) ForgeRock
12 12 (0.61%) Red Hat
12 12 (0.61%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.51%) SAP
13 10 (0.51%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.36%) OpenText